Continuity and Change Initiative focuses on creating Project Teams

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

With ASME's Continuity and Change Initiative now in the home stretch, volunteers and staff are concentrating on the formation of Project Teams.

These teams will address issues relating to ASME units affected by the C&C initiative, such as the level of support for functions and services, and their locations. Project Teams will also review procedures and recommend changes. Members of each Project Team will include a mix of volunteers and staff as the team deems appropriate.

Currently, seven Project Teams have been approved by the Project Management Task Force (PMTF). Several other proposals for Project Teams are under review. Notification of intent to form any other Project Teams must be received by the Project Office no later than the end of this month.

Teams can be started in several ways: a self-forming interested group can petition the PMTF as a Project Team; the PMTF can appoint a Project Team; or the PMTF chair and the ASME president can appoint a Project Team together.

Any group intending to form a Project Team must prepare a project template, available online at www.asme.org/change. The Project Office will review all templates to ensure that efforts are not duplicated or in conflict, then pass them along to the PMTF.

Descriptions of current Project Teams including templates can be reviewed on www.asme.org/change.

The approved Project Teams are: Engineering Workforce Pipeline Development — Migrating Educational Services to the New Organization; Financial Projects, which covers Financial Reporting, Full Cost Accounting, and Fair and Sustainable Accounting; Council on Codes and Standards Structure; Consolidated Services Staffing for Event Planning and Management Project Team; Consolidated Services Staffing for Marketing and Sales Project Team; Consolidated Services Staffing for Members, Customers and Groups Project Team, and the Council on Engineering/Council on Member Affairs/Council on Education Project Coordination Team.

Technical divisions and sections will continue to exist. Activities currently supported by the Council on Engineering and the Council on Member Affairs will be streamlined to facilitate adding technical content to local programs.

A monthly newsletter is available at www.asme.org/change. ASME members with e-mail will receive the first issue and may request following issues.

 

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